Word: dining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then went to work on settling the FTC complaint. Lazarus, said young Goldfine, made several trips to Washington, where he entertained FTC people "at least a couple of times a week." Concluded Mack Goldfine: "You can't see people a couple of times a week and wine and dine them without expecting to get at least some consideration...
Purple People Eaters.* 5) There will be a pep rally at the covered bridge over the Oconee River at 1600 to crown the Pope, who will arrive by submarine at 1545. Marching from the river, the Pope's first stop will be the varsity, where he will dine and sign autographs...
...President Bourguiba was trying to persuade him that "it is up to U.S. leadership to convince France that the Algerian war is not profitable." Within 30 minutes of Murphy's departure from Bourguiba's Carthage residence, three leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front arrived to dine...
...investigation by newsmen showed that Statesman Churchill is energetic enough to paint, read, play gin rummy and eat zestfully, in a packed vacation schedule. Sample lunch: hors d'oeuvres, duck with olives, French pastries, champagne, two cognacs topped off by two cigars. Churchill also drove 22 miles to dine with a Riviera neighbor, Author W. Somerset Maugham, 84, last week. Maugham observed his birthday by making his perennial remarks about quitting his literary endeavors once and for all. Peering into the future, he also decided that his slight physique may entitle him to many more years...
Some idea of the extent of his social activity can be grasped from this excerpt from a letter home: "On Thursday I...went to lunch at the Sturgises', and to dine at the Lords'...on Saturday went to lunch with Mrs. Brown at the Touraine and went to the theatre in the evening. On Sunday (yesterday) I met Sidney Lord in Harvard Square at 9:30, & we went to Oakley and had a very good game of golf, & met various members of the family. I hustled back at 12:30 and went in to a stag lunch with Willy Burnham...